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CINDERELLA, BEAUTY AND TEE BEAST, 

THE PRINCES9 ROSETTA, LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD, 

PAIR ONE AND GOLDEN LOCKS. TIIE SLEEPING BEAUTY, 


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THE STORY 



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There once lived a gentleman, who, on becoming a 
widower, married a most haughty woman for his se¬ 
cond wife. The lady had two daughters by a former 
marriage, equally proud and disagreeable as herself, 
while the husband had one daughter, of the sweetest 
temper and most angelic disposition, who was the 
complete counterpart of her late mother. No sooner 
was the wedding over, than the stepmother began to 
show her bad temper. She could not bear her step¬ 
daughter’s good qualities, that only showed up her 
daughters’ unamiable ones still more obviously, and 
she accordingly compelled the poor girl to do all the 
drudgery of the household. It was she who washed 
the dishes, and scrubbed down the stairs, and polished 
the floors in my lady’s chamber, and in those of the 
two pert misses, her daughters; and while the latter 
slept on good featherbeds in elegant rooms, furnished 
with full-length looking-glasses, their sister lay in a 



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wretched garret on an old straw mattress. Yet the 
poor thing bore this ill treatment very meekly, and 
did not dare complain to her father, who was so be¬ 
sotted to his wife that he would only have scolded her. 

When her work was done, she used to sit in the 
chimney corner amongst the cinders, which had caused 
the nickname of Cinderella to be given her by the fa¬ 
mily; yet, for all her shabby clothes, Cinderella was a 
hundred times prettier than her sisters, let them be 
drest ever so magnificently. 

It happened that the king’s son gave a ball, to 
which he invited all the nobility; and, as our two young 
ladies made a great figure in the world, they were in¬ 
cluded in the list of invitations. So they began to be 
very busy choosing what head-dress and which gown 
would be the most becoming. Here was fresh work 
for poor Cinderella; for it was she, forsooth, who was 
to starch and get up their ruffles, and iron all their 
fine linen; and nothing but dress was talked about 
for days together. “ I,” said the eldest, “ shall put on 
my red velvet dress, with my point-lace trimmings.” 
“ And I,” said the younger sister, “ shall wear my 
usual petticoat, but shall set it off with my gold bro 


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ended train and my circlet of diamonds.* They sent 
for a clever tire-woman to prepare the double rows of 
quilling for their caps, and they purchased a quantity 
of fashionably cut patches. They called in Cinderella 
to take her advice, as she had such good taste, and 
Cinderella not only advised them well, but offered to 
dress their hair, which they were pleased to accept. 
While she was thus busied, the sisters said to her, 



a And pray, Cinderella, would you like to go to tha 







































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ball!” ‘Nay, you are mocking me,” replied tbe pool 
girl; “ it is not for such as I to go to balls.” “ True 
enough,” rejoined they; “ folks would laugh to see a 
Cinderella at a court ball.” 

Any other but Cinderella would have drest their 
hair awry to punish them for their impertinence, but 
she was so good natured that she dressed them most 
becomingly. The two sisters were so delighted, that 
they scarcely ate a morsel for a couple of days. They 
spent their whole time before a looking-glass, and 
they would be laced so tight, to make their waists as 
slender as possible, that more than a dozen stay-lace3 
were broken in the attempt. 

The long-wished-for evening came at last, and off 
they set. Cinderella's eyes followed them as long as 
she could, and then she was fain to weep. Her god¬ 
mother now appeared, and seeing her in tears inquired 
what was the matter. “ I wish—I wish,” began the 
poor girl, but tears choked her utterance. “ You wish 
that you could go to the ball,” interrupted her god¬ 
mother, who was a fairy. “ Indeed I do!” said Cin¬ 
derella, with a sigh. “Well, then, if you will be a 


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^ood girl, you shall go,” said her godmother. “Now 
fetch me a pumpkin from the garden,” added she. 
Cinderella flew to gather the finest pumpkin she could 
find, though she could not understand how it was to 
help her to go to the ball. But, her godmother hav¬ 
ing scooped it quite hollow, touched it with her wand, 
when it was immediately changed into a gilt coach* 
She then went to the mousetrap, where she found sis 
live mice, and bidding Cinderella let them out one by 
one, she changed each mouse into a fine dapple-grey 
















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horse by a stroke of her wand. She next considered 
what she should do for a coachman, when Cinderella 
proposed to look for a rat in the rat-trap. “ That’s a 
good thought,” quoth her godmother, “ so go and see.” 
Sure enough, Cinderella returned with the rat-trap, in 
which were three large rats. The fairy chose one who 
had a tremendous pair of whiskers, and forthwith 
changed him into a coachman with the finest mousta- 
chios ever seen. She then said: “Now go into the 
garden, and bring me six lizards, which you will find 
behind the watering-pot.” These were no sooner 
brought, than they were turned into six footmen, with 
laced liveries, who got up behind the coach just as 
naturally as if they had done nothing else all their 
lives. The fairy then said to Cinderella: “Nowhere 
are all the means for going to the ball; are you not 
pleased?” “ But must I go in these dirtyclothes?” said 
Cinderella, timidly. Her godmother merely touch¬ 
ed her with her wand, and her shabby clothes were 
changed to a dress of gold and silver tissue, all orna¬ 
mented with precious stones. She next gave her the 
prettiest pair of glass slippers ever seen. She now 
got into the carriage, after having been warned by her 


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godmother upon no account to prolong her stay b©« 
yond midnight, as, should she remain a moment 
longer at the ball, her coach would again become a 
pumpkin, her horses mice, her footmen lizards, while 
her clothes would return to their former shabby con¬ 
dition. Cinderella promised she would not fail to 
leave the ball before midnight, and set off in an ecstacy 
of delight. The king’s son, on being informed that 
some great princess, unknown at court, had just ar¬ 
rived, went to hand her out of her carriage, and 























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Bemblea. The moment she appeared, all conversation 
was hushed, the violins ceased playing, and the danc¬ 
ing stopped short, so great was the sensation produced 
by the stranger’s beauty. A confused murmur of ad¬ 
miration fluttered through the crowd, and each was 
"ain to exclaim “ H/nv surpassingly lovely sb n is!** 
Even the king, old as he was, could not forbear ad¬ 
miring her like the rest, and whispered to the queen, 
that she was certainly the fairest and comeliest woman 
he had seen for many a long day. The ladies were 
all busy examining her head-dress and her clothes, in 
order to get similar ones the very next day, if, indeed, 
they could meet with stufis of such rich patterns, and 
find workwomen clever enough to make them up. 

After leading her to the place to which her rank 
seemed to entitle her, the king’s son requested her 
hand for the next dance, when she displayed so much 
grace as to increase the admiration her beauty had 
raised in the first instance. An elegant supper was 
next brought in, but the young prince was so taken 
up with gazing at the fair stranger, that he did not 
partake of a morsel. Cinderella went and sat by 
her sisters, sharing with them the oranges and citron* 


Cinderella; or, the glass slipper. 

the prince had offered her, much to their surprise, as 
they did not recognise her in the least. 

When Cinderella heard the clock strike three-quar 
ters past eleven, she made a low curtsey to the whole 
assembly, and retired in haste. On reaching home, 
she found her godmother, and after thanking her for 
the treat she had enjoyed, she ventured to express a 
wish to return to the ball on the following evening, as 
the prince had requested her to do. She was still re¬ 
lating to her godmother all that had happened at 
court, when her two sisters knocked at the door. 
Cinderella went and let them in, pretending to yawn 
and stretch herself, and rub her eyes, and saying: 
“How late you are!” just as if she was woke up out 
of a nap, though, truth to say, she had never felt less 
disposed to sleep in her life. “ If you had been to 
the ball,” said one of the sisters, “ you would not have 
thought it late. There came the most beautiful prin- 
cess ever seen, who loaded us with polite attentions, 
and gave us oranges and citrons.” 

Cinderella could scarcely contain her delight, and 
inquired the name of the princess. But they replied 
that nobody knew her name, and that the king’s son 


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was in great trouble about her, and would give the 
world to know who she could be. “Is she, then, so 
very beautiful h ” said Cinderella, smiling. “ Lord! how 
I should like to see her! Oh, do, my Lady Javotte, 
lend me the yellow dress you wear every day, that I 
may go to the ball and have a peep at this wonderful 
princess.” “A likely story, indeed!” cried Javotte, 
tossing her head disdainfully, “ that I should lend my 
clothes to a dirty Cinderella like you!” Cinderella ex¬ 
pected to be refused, and was not sorry for it, as she 
would have been puzzled what to do, had her sister 
really lent her the dress she begged to have. 

On the following evening, the sisters again went to 
the court ball, and so did Cinderella, drest even more 
magnificently than before. The king’s son never left 
her side, and kept paying her the most flattering at¬ 
tentions. The young lady was nothing loth to listen 
to him; so it came to pass that she forgot her god¬ 
mother’s injunctions, and, indeed, lost her reckoning 
so completely, that, before she deemed it could be 
eleven o’clock, she was startled at hearing the first 
stroke of midnight. She rose hastily, and flew away 
like a startled fawn. The prince attempted to follow 


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her, but she was too swift for him; only, as she flew 
she dropped one of her glass slippers, which he picked 
up very eagerly. Cinderella reached home quite out 
of breath, without either coach or footmen, and with 
only her shabby clothes on her back; nothing, in short, 
remained of her recent magnificence, save a little glass 
slipper, the fellow to the one she had lost. The sen¬ 
tinels at the palace gate were closely questioned as to 
whether they had not seen a princess coming out; but 
they answered they had seen no one except a shabbily 



drest girl, who appeared to be a peasant rather than a 

young lady. 








































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When the two sisters returned from the ball, Cin« 
lerella asked them whether they had been well enter¬ 
tained; and whether the beautiful lady was there? 
They replied, that she was; but that she had run 
away as soon as midnight had struck, and so quickly 
as to drop one of her dainty glass slippers, which the 
king’s son had picked up, and was looking at most 
fondly during the remainder of the ball; indeed, it 
seemed beyond a doubt that he was deeply enamoured 
of the beautiful creature to whom it belonged. 

They spoke truly enough; for, a few days after¬ 
wards, the king’s son caused a proclamation to be 
made, by sound of trumpet, all over the kingdom, to 
the effect that he would marry her whose foot should 
be found to fit the slipper exactly. So the slipper 
was first tried on by all the princesses; then by all the 
duchesses; and next by all the persons belonging to 
the court: but in vain. It was then carried to the 
two sisters, who tried with all their might to force 
their feet into its delicate proportions, but with no 
better success. Cinderella, who was present, and re¬ 
cognised her slipper, now laughed, and said: “ Sup¬ 
pose I were to try?” Her sisters ridiculed such 


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an idea; but the gentleman who was appointed to try 
the slipper, having looked attentively at Cinderella, 
and perceived how beautiful she was, said that it was 
but fair she should do so, as he had orders to try 
it on every young maiden in the kingdom. Accord¬ 
ingly, having requested Cinderella to sit down, she 
no sooner put her little foot to tne slipper, than she 



drew it on, and it fitted like wax. The sisters were 
quite amazed; but their astonishment increased ten 
fold, when Cinderella drew the fellow slipper out o' 





























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her pocket, and put it on. Her godmother then 
made her appearance; and, having touched Cinder¬ 
ella’s clothes with her wand, made them still moro 
magnificent than those she had previously worn. 

Her two sisters now recognised her for the beau¬ 
tiful stranger they had seen at the ball; and, falling 
at her feet, implored her forgiveness for their un¬ 
worthy treatment, and all the insults they had heaped 
upon her head. Cinderella raised them, saying, as 
she embraced them, that she not only forgave them 
with all her heart, but wished for their affection. 
She was then taken to the palace of the young prince* 
in whose eyes she appeared yet more lovely than be¬ 
fore, and who married her shortly after. 

Cinderella, who was as good as she w r as beautiful, 
allow r ed her sisters to lodge in the palace, and gave 
them in marriage, that same day, to two lords be¬ 
longing to the court. 


THE STORY 


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There was once a wealthy merchant who had 
three sons and three daughters. The latter were 
extremely pretty, especially the youngest, who, in¬ 
deed, was called in childhood the little Beauty,— a 
nickname that clung to her ever after, much to the 
jealous annoyance of her sisters. Nor did she excel 
them more in beauty than in goodness. The two 
eldest sisters were so proud of their father’s fortune 
that they would not condescend to herd with other 
merchants’ daughters, but were always dangling after 
persons of quality, and frequenting balls and plays, 
and laughed at their youngest sister for spending her 
time in reading instructive books. ‘ As they were 
known to be rich, many wealthy merchants offered to 
marry them; but the two eldest replied, that they 
could not think of anybody below a Duke, or at least 
an Earl, while Beauty answered, that she thanked 
them for their good opinion, but that, being still very 
young, she wished to remain a few years longer with 
her father. 

It happened that the merchant was suddenly ruined, 
and nothing was left of all his vast property but o 



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small house in the country, whither, he informed his 



children, they must now remove. The two eldest re¬ 
plied, that for their parts they need not leave town, 
as they had plenty of lovers who would be too happy 
to marry them even without a fortune. But here they 
were strangely mistaken. Their lovers would not 
even look upon them now; and, as they had made 
themselves odious by their pride, nobody pitied them 
for their fall, though every one felt sorry for Beauty. 
Indeed, several gentlemen offered to marry her, por¬ 
tionless as she was; but she told them she could not 
resolve to abandon her father in his misfortunes. The 
















































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family now removed into the country, where the father 
and his sons tilled the ground, while Beauty rose daily 
at four o'clock, and did all the work in the house. At 
first this drudgery seemed very hard, but after a time 
she grew stronger, and her health improved. When 
her work was over she read, played on the harpsichord, 
or sang as she sat at her spinning-wheel. As to her 
two sisters, they were perfectly helpless, and a burden 
to themselves. They would rise at ten, and spend 
the live-long day fretting for the loss of their fine 
clothes and gay parties, and sneer at their sister for 
her low-born tastes, because she put up with their un¬ 
fortunate position so cheerfully. 

The family had spent about a year in their retreat, 
when the merchant received a letter, informing him 
that a ship freighted with goods belonging to him, that 
was thought to be lost, had just come into port. At 
this unexpected news the two eldest sisters were half 
wild for joy, as they now hoped they would soon leave 
the cottage; and when their father was about to go and 
settle his business, they begged him to bring them 
back all sorts of dresses and trinkets. When the 
father perceived that Beauty did not ask for anything, 
he inquired what he should bring her. ‘'Why, since 


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you ask me, dear father,” said she, “ I should like you 
to bring me a rose, as none grow in these parts.” 
Now, it was not that Beauty particularly cared about 
his bringing a rose, only she would not appear to 
blame her sisters, or to seem superior to them, by say¬ 
ing she did not wish for anything. The good man 
set off, but when he reached the port, he was obliged 
to go to law about the cargo, and it ended in his re¬ 
turning as poor as he came. He was within thirty 
miles of home, when, on passing by night through a 
large forest, he was overtaken by a heavy fall of snow, 
and, having completely lost his way, he began to be 
afraid he should die of hunger and cold, when of a sud¬ 
den he perceived a light at the end of a long long avenue 
of trees, and, on making for that direction, he reached 
a spendid palace,where, to his surprise, not a human be¬ 
ing was stirring in any of the court-yards. His horse 
followed him, and, seeing a stable-door open,walked in, 
and here the poor jaded beast fed heartily on the hay 
and oats that filled the crib. The merchant then en¬ 
tered the house, where he still saw nobody, but found 
a good fire, and a table ready laid for one person, with 
the choicest viands. Being completely drenched, he 
drew tear the fire to dry his clothes, saying to him- 


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self* “I hope the master of the house or his servants 
will excuse the liberty I am taking, for no doubt it 
will not be long before they make their appearance.” 
He then waited a considerable while, still no one came, 
and by the time the clock struck eleven, he was so 
exhausted with hunger that he took up a chicken* 
which he devoured in two mouthfuls, and in a perfect 
tremor. He next drank several glasses of wine, when, 
taking courage, he left the hall, and crossed several 
suites of rooms most magnificently furnished. At last 
he found a very nice chamber, and, as it was now past 
midnight, and he was excessively tired, he closed the 
door and went to bed. 

The merchant did not wake till ten o’clock on the 
following morning, when he was surprised to find a 
new suit of clothes instead of his own, which were 
spoiled. He now concluded the palace belonged to 
some beneficent fairy; a notion which was completely 
confirmed on his looking out of window, and seeing 
that the snow had given place to flowery arbours and 
the most enchanting gardens. Having returned to 
the great hall, where he had supped on the previous 
night, he saw a small table, on which stood some cho¬ 
colate ready for his breakfast. When his meal waa 


BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. 


finished, he went to look after his horse, and. as he hap¬ 
pened to pass under a bower of roses, he bethought him 
of Beauty’s request, and plucked a bunch to take home. 
No sooner had he done so than he heard a frightful 
roar, and saw such a horrible beast stalking up to 
him that he was ready to faint with alarm. es You 
are most ungrateful,” cried the Beast, in a terrific voice. 
“ I saved your life by admitting you into my palace, 
and you reward me by stealing my roses, which I love 
beyond everything else! You shall pay the forfeit 


with your life’s blood.” The poor merchant threw him¬ 
self on his knees before the Beast, saying: u Forgivo 









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me, my Lord, I did not know I should offend you by 
plucking a rose for one of my daughters, in compliance 
with her wishes.” “ I am not a lord, but a beast,” an- 
Bwered the monster; “ I hate flattery, and you will 
not come over me with any fine speeches; but, as you 
say you have daughters, I will forgive you, provided 
one of them comes willingly to die in your stead, but 
swear that, should they refuse, you will return in three 
months.” The merchant had not the most distant in¬ 
tention of sacrificing one of his daughters, but wish¬ 
ing to see his children once more before he died, he 
swore to return, and the Beast dismissed him, telling 
him he need not go empty-handed, but that, if he re- 
tured to his bed-chamber, he would find a large trunk, 
which he was at liberty to fill with anything lie fan¬ 
cied in the palace, and that it would be sent after him. 
Somewhat comforted at the idea of leaving his chil¬ 
dren provided for, the merchant returned to his room, 
where he found a quantity of gold pieces; and having 
filled the trunk, he left the palace in a far sadder mood 
than he had entered it. On reaching home, he gave the 
roses to his daughter, saying: “ Take them, Beauty: 
you little think how dear they have cost your poor fa¬ 
ther.” And thereupon, he related all that had befallen 


BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. 


him. The two eldest sisters then began to rend the ail 
with their lamentations, and to upbraid Beauty for be- 
ing the cause of their father’s death, because, forsooth, 
she didn’t ask for dresses, as they did, in order to 
seem wiser than they; and now she had not even a 
tear for the mischief she had done. But Beauty re¬ 
plied, it were of little use to weep, for that she was 
quite resolved to go, and die in her father’s stead. 
“No,” cried the three brothers, “we will go and seek 
this monster, and either he or we shall perish.” But 
the merchant assured them it was vain to attempt re¬ 
sisting the Beast’s all-powerful will, and that it was 
their duty to live to protect their sisters, as it was his 
to sacrifice the few remaining years he could expect 
to enjoy. Meanwhile, the merchant, having forgotten 
all about the trunk, was much surprised to find it on 
retiring to his chamber; but he said nothing about it 
for the present to his eldest daughters, as he knew 
they would pester him to return to town. 

When the day came that Beauty was to set out 
with her father, the two heartless sisters rubbed their 
eyes with an onion to appear as if they had cried a 
great deal, while her brothers shed real tears, as well 
as the father himself. The horse took the right road 






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of his own accord, and, on reaching the palace, which 



was illuminated as before, he went at once into the 
stable, while the father and daughter entered the great 
hall, where two covers were laid on a table loaded 
with the most dainty fare. After supper they heard a 
tremendous noise. Beauty shuddered on seeing tho 
Beast enter, and when he inquired whether she 
had come willingly, she could not help trembling as 
she faltered out “Yes.” “Then I am obliged foi 
your kindness,” growled the Beast; and, turning to 
the father, he added: “As for you—get you gone to¬ 
morrow, and never let me see you here again. Good 


































beauty and the beast. 

night, Beauty.” “ Good night, Beast,” answered she, 
and then the monster retired. The merchant again fell 
to entreating his daughter to leave him, but the next 
morning she prevailed on him to set out; which he, per¬ 
haps, would not have done, had he not felt a faint 
hope that the Beast might, after all, relent. When 
he was gone, Beauty could not help shedding some 
tears; after which she proceeded to examine the va¬ 
rious rooms of the palace, when she was surprised to 
find written upon one of the doors, “ Beauty’s Apart¬ 
ment.” She opened it in haste, and found a magni- 
.ficentlv furnished room, and was much struck on see- 
ing an extensive library, a harpsichord, and music 
books; for she concluded that, if she had only a day 
to live, such amusements would not have been pro¬ 
vided for her. Her surprise increased, on opening 
one of the books, and seeing written in golden letters, 
“ Your wishes and commands shall be'obeyed: you 
a/re here the queen over everything .” u Alas!” thought 
she, “ my wish would be to see what my poor father 
is now about.” Ho sooner had she expressed this 
desire in her own mind, than she saw depicted in a 
large looking-glass her father’s arrival at home. Her 
sisters came out to meet him. and, in spite of their 



BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. 


affected sorrow, it was plain enough that they rejoiced 
in their hearts at his returning alone. This vision 
disappeared a moment afterwards, and Beauty felt 
grateful to the Beast for complying with her wishes. 
At noon she found dinner ready for her; and she was 
treated all the while to an excellent concert, though 
she saw nobody. At night the Beast came, and asked 
leave to sup with her, which of course she could not 
refuse, though she trembled from head to foot. Pre¬ 
sently he inquired whether she did not think hinj 
very ugly. “ Yes,” said Beauty, “ for I cannot tell a 
lie; but I think you very good.” The supper passed 
off pleasantly enough, and Beauty had half recovered 
from her alarm, when he suddenly asked her whether 
she would marry him. Though afraid of irritating him, 
she faltered out: “ No, Beast,” when he sighed so as 
to shake the whole house, and saying: “ Good night, 
Beauty,” in a sorrowful tone, left the room, much to 
her relief, though she could not help pitying him from 
her soul. 

Beauty lived in this manner for three months. The 
Beast came to supper every night; and, by degrees, 
as she grew accustomed to his ugliness, she esteemed 
him for his many amiable qualities. The only thing 


BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. 


that pained her was, that he never failed to ask her whe¬ 
ther she would marry him; and when, at last, she told 
him that she had the greatest friendship though no love 
for him, he begged her at least to promise never to leave 
him. Now Beauty had seen in her glass, that very morn¬ 
ing, that her father lay sick with grief at her supposed 
death; and, as her sisters were married, and her bro¬ 
thers gone for soldiers, she had so great a wish to go 
and see him, that she told the Beast she should die if 
he refused her leave. “ Xo,” said the Beast, “ I would 
much rather your poor Beast should die of grief for your 
absence. So you may go.” But Beauty promised to 
return in a week; and the Beast having informed her 
that she need only lay her ring on her toilet table 
before she went to bed, when she meant to return, he 
wished her good night, and retired. 

On awaking next morning, Beauty found herself 
in her father’s cottage, and his delight on seeing her 
alive soon restored his health. He sent for her sis¬ 
ters, who presently came accompanied by their hus¬ 
bands, with whom they lived very unhappily, as one 
was so vain of his person that he thought nothing of 
his wife, and the other so sarcastic that he was play¬ 
ing off his wit all day long on everybody around him. 




BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. 


and most of all on his lady. The sisters were so 



jealous on finding Beauty magnificently dressed, and 
hearing how kind the Beast was to her, that they laid 
a plan for detaining her beyond the time allowed her 
to stay, in hopes he would be so angry as to devour 
her. Accordingly, when the week was over, they af¬ 
fected such grief at her departure, that Beauty agreed 
to a stay another week, though she could not help 
reproaching herself for so doing. But on the night 
of the tenth day, she dreamt she saw the Beast lying 
half dead on the grass in the palace garden, and wak¬ 
ing all in tears, she got out of bed, laid her ring on 



























































BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. 

the table, and then went to bed again, where she soon 
fell asleep. She was quite relieved, on waking, to find 
herself back in the palace, and waited impatiently till 
supper time, but nine o’clock struck, and no Beast ap¬ 
peared. Beauty then seriously feared she had caused 
his death, and running into the garden towards the 
spot she had dreamt of, she saw the poor Beast lying 
senseless on the grass. She threw herself upon his 
body in despair, when feeling that his heart still beat, 
she ran to fetch some water from a neighbouiing stream^ 



and threw it into his face. The Beast opened his eyes 












BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. 


saying in a faint voice: “You forgot your promise, and 
I determined to starve myself to death; but since you 
are come, I shall, at least, die happy.” “No! you 
shall not die, dear Beast,” cried Beauty, “you shall 
live to be my husband, for I now feel I really love 
you.” No sooner had she spoken these words, than 
the palace was brilliantly illuminated, fireworks were 
displayed, and a band of music struck up. The Beast 
had disappeared, and in his place, a very handsome 
prince was at her feet, thanking her for having bro¬ 
ken his enchantment. “ But where is my poor Beast?” 
said Beauty anxiously. “ He is now before you,” said 
the prince. “ A wicked fairy condemned me to retain 
that uncouth form till some beautiful maid had suffi¬ 
cient goodness to love me in spite of my ugliness.” 
Beauty, most agreeably surprised, now helped the 
prince to rise, and they returned to the palace, where 
she found her father. The young pair were then 
married, and the prince and his beautiful bride were 
heartily welcomed by his subjects, who had mourned 
his absence, and over whom they reigned happily for 
many, many long years. 


THE STORY 

OP 


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CiM Inj UJatomt to Cljatelain. 





























































^riitrcss Unsrtta. 

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There once lived a king and a queen who had two 
very fine boys. The queen always invited the fairies, 
on the birth of her children, to foretel their fortunes; 
so when, some years after, a daughter was born, she 
again applied to her old friends. The little girl was 
bo beautiful that the fairies were struck with admira¬ 
tion; but when questioned by the mother as to the 
future fate of Princess Rosetta (for such was her name), 
they one and all pretended to have left their conjur- 
ing-book at home, and said they would come another 
time. “Alas!” cried the queen, “thisbodes no good. 
Yet I do entreat 3m u to tell me the worst.” The 
more unwilling the fairies seemed to speak, the greater * 
desire the queen felt to know what was the matter; so 
at length the principal fairy said: “We are afraid, 
Madam, that Rosetta will prove unlucky to her bro¬ 
thers, and that they will die in some adventure on 
her account. That is all that we are able to foresee 
about your pretty little girl.” They then departed, 
and left the queen very sad. 

Some time after, the queen was told that there was 
an old hermit, who lived in the trunk of a tree, in 
* neighbouring wood, and whom everybody went to 



PRINCESS ROSETTA. 



consult. So she went and consulted the hermit, and 
he answered, that the best thing would be to shut the 
princess up in a tower, and never allow her to go 
abroad. The queen thanked him, and having made 
him a handsome present, came back and told the king 
what he had said. The king immediately ordered a 
high tower to be built, and when it was finished, he 
shut the princess up in it, though he went daily to 
see his daughter, accompanied by the queen and the 


























PRINCESS ROSETTA. 


two princes, who were devotedly attached to theif 
sister. By the time the princess was fifteen years of 
age the king and queen fell ill and died the same day, 
to the great grief of Kosetta and her brothers. The 
eldest son was now raised to the throne, when he said 
to his brother: “ It is time we should let our sister 
out of the tower in which she has been so long shut 
up.” Accordingly they crossed the garden, and hav¬ 
ing entered the tower, Bosetta came to meet them, 
and said: “ I hope, Sire, now that you are king, you 
will let me out of this tower, where I am so tired of 
being shut up.” And so saying she burst into tears. 
But the king told her not to cry, and that she should 
not only leave the tower, but soon be married. When 
Rosetta came down into the garden, she was delighted 
with all she saw, and ran about like a child to gather 
flowers and fruit,\followed by her little dog Fretillon, 
who was as green as a parrot, and had long ears, 
but who danced most admirably. But when the prin¬ 
cess caught sight of a peacock, she thought it the 
most beautiful creature in the world, and asked her 
brothers what it was. On being told that it was a 
bird that was occasionally eaten, she replied that it 
was a sin and a shame to eat such a beautiful bird, 


PRINCESS ROSETTA. 



and added, that she would never marry any cne but 
the king of the peacocks, and then such a sacrilege 
should be forbidden. “But, sister,” said the king, 
greatly astonished, “where on earth can we find the 
king of the peacocks 1” “ That is your look-out,” said 
the young princess; “ all I can say is, that no one else 

shall become my husband.” 

The two brothers then led her to the palace, whither 
she insisted on having the peacock removed, and put 
into her chamber. All the ladies of the court, who 


PRINCESS ROSETTA. 


had not seen Rosetta, then came to pay their respects 
to her, and brought her a variety of presents, which 
she received with such infantine grace and pretty 
gratitude, as to delight everybody. The king and his 
brother were thinking, meanwhile, how they should 
contrive to find the king of the peacocks. At length 
they had Rosetta’s picture taken, and a speaking like¬ 
ness it was, and with this they set off on their difficult 
errand, leaving the princess to govern the kingdom 
during their absence. 

They at last reached the kingdom of the Cock¬ 
chafers, and such a buzzing there was in it, that the 
king thought he should go deaf or mad. At length 
he asked the one who appeared the most rational of 
the set, where he could find the king of the peacocks. 
“Please your majesty,” replied the cockchafer, “his 
kingdom is thirty thousand miles from hence, and you 
have taken the longest road to reach it.” “ And pray, 
how can you know that ? ” said the king. “ Because,” 
rejoined the cockchafer, “ you and we are old acquaint¬ 
ances, for we spend two or three months in your 
gardens every year.” The king and his brother em¬ 
braced the cockchafer for joy, and then they dined 
together; and after admiring all the curiosities of the 


PRINCESS ROSETTA. 

kingdom, where every leaf was worth a guinea, they 
continued their journey, till they reached a country 
where they saw all the trees were filled with peacocks, 
who made such a screeching that they were to be 
heard at least two leagues off. The king now said to 
his brother: “Should the king of the peacocks be 
himself a peacock, he will be an odd husband for our 
sister. What a pity it is she ever imagined that 
there existed such a king!” On reaching the capital, 
however, they found it inhabited by men and women, 
who wore dresses made of peacocks feathers, and pre¬ 
sently they saw the king coming out of his palace, in 
a beautiful little golden carnage studded with dia¬ 
monds, and drawn by twelve peacocks. He was 
extremely handsome, and wore his fine, long, curly 
flaxen hair flowing on his shoulders, surmounted by 
a crown of peacocks’ feathers. On perceiving the two 
strangers he stopped the carriage, and inquired what 
had brought them to hiskingdom. The king and prince 
then said they came from afar to shew him a beautiful 
portrait, and accordingly drew forth Rosetta s likeness. 
The king of the peacocks after having attentively 
examined it, declared ho could not believe there really 
existed so beautiful a maiden in the world. Upon 


PRINCESS ROSETTA. 


which the prince informed him that his brother was 
a king, and that the original of the portrait was their 
sister, the princess Rosetta, who was a hundred times 
more beautiful than here represented, and that they 
came to offer her to him in marriage, with a bushel of 
golden crowns for her portion. “ I should willingly 
marry her,” replied the king of the peacocks, but I must 
insist upon her being quite as beautiful as the picture; 
and, should I find her inferior in the slightest respect, 
I will put you both to death.” “Agreed!” cried the 
brothers. “Well, then,” said the king, “you must go 
to prison till the princess arrives.” This they wil¬ 
lingly did, and then wrote off to their sister to come 
immediately to marry the king of the peacocks, who 
was dying of love for her; but they said nothing about 
their being shut up, for fear of alarming her. 

The princess was half wild with joy when she heard 
the king of the peacocks was really found, and she lost 
no time in setting off with her nurse, her foster-sister, 
and her little green dog Fretillon, who were the only 
companions she chose to take with her. They put 
to sea in a vessel loaded with a bushel of golden 
crowns, and with clothes enough for ten years, suppos¬ 
ing the princess put on two new dresses every day. 


PRINCESS ROSETTA. 

During tlie passage, tlie nurse kept asking the pilot 
how near they were to the kingdom of peacocks; and 
when at last he told her they would soon reach its 
shores, the wicked creature said, that if he would help 
her to throw the princess into the sea, as soon as she 
should be asleep that night, she could then dress up 
her daughter in her fine clothes, and present her to 
the king of the peacocks for his bride, and that she 
would give him gold and diamonds so as to make his 
fortune. The pilot thought it a pity to drown such 
a fair princess; but the nurse having plied him with 



wine until he was quite tipsy, he gave his consent 






































PRINCESS ROSETTA. 


and when night came, he helped her and her daughter 
to take up Rosetta, when she' was fast asleep, mattress, 
feather-bed and all, and flung her into the sea. Fortu- 
nately the bed was stuffed with phoenix’s feathers, 
which possess the virtue of not sinking, so that it 
kept floating like a barge. Still, the waves wetted it 
by degrees, and Rosetta, feeling uncomfortable, kept 
turning about in her sleep, till she woke her little 
dog, who lay at the foot of her bed. Fretillon had a 
very fine scent, and, as he smelt the soles and the cod, 
he barked aloud, which in turn woke the fish, who 
began to swim about and run foul of the princess’s 
light craft, that kept twisting about like a whirlpool. 

Meanwhile the wicked nurse had reached the shore, 
where she and her daughter found a hundred carriages 
waiting for them, drawn by a variety of animals, such 
as lions, stags, bears, wolves, horses, oxen, eagles, and 
peacocks. The coach intended for Princess Rosetta 
was drawn by six blue monkeys, caparisoned with 
crimson velvet. The nurse had drest up her daughter 
in the finest gown she could find, and loaded her head 
with diamonds; in spite of which, she appeared so 
frightful, with her squinting eyes, oily black hair, 
crooked legs, and humped shoulder, that the persons 


PRINCESS ROSETTA, 


sent by the king of the peacocks to receive her, were 
struck with amazement at the sight of her. Being 
as cross as she was ill-favoured, she asked them tartly 
whether they were all asleep, and why they did not 
bring her something to eat; and then, distributing 
her blows pretty freely, she threatened to have them 
all hung if they did not shew a little more alacrity in 
doing her bidding. As she passed along in state, the 



peacocks perched on the trees cried out, Fie. what 













PRINCESS ROSETTA. 


an ugly creature!” which enraged her so that she 
ordered her guards to go and kill all the peacocks ; 
but they flew away and only laughed at her the more. 
When the pilot heard and saw all this, he whispered 
to the nurse: “We are in the wrong box, mistress;” 
but she bid him hold his peace. 

When the king came forth to meet her, accompa¬ 
nied by all his nobles, his peacocks, and the foreign 
ambassadors staying at his court, preceded by Roset¬ 
ta’s portrait at the end of a long pole, he was ready 
to die with rage and vexation on seeing such a fright; 
and, without more ado, he ordered her to be shut up, 
together with the nurse and the pilot, in the tower 
prison. His rage next fell upon the two princes, 
whom he accused of making game of him; and they 
were much surprised when, instead of being released 
on their sister’s arrival, they were transferred to a 
horrible dungeon, where they remained up to their 
necks in water for three days. At the end of that 
time, the king of the peacocks came and insulted them 
through a loop-hole, and told them they were a cou 
pie of adventurers, whom he would have hung; upon 
which, the elder prisoner replied indignantly, that he 
was as good a king as himself, and that he might 


PRINCESS ROSETTA. 


gome day repent his insolent behaviour. Seeing him 
so firm, the king of the peacocks had almost a mind to 
release them at once, and send them away with theii 
sister, hut one of his courtiers persuaded him that his 
dignity required he should punish the strangers; so he 
had them tried, and they were condemned to be ex¬ 
ecuted for having told a falsehood, and promising the 
kins a beautiful bride, who had turned out a horrible 
fright. When they heard this sentence, they protested 
so vehemently that there must be some misunder¬ 
standing, which time would clear up, that they ob¬ 
tained a week’s respite. Meanwhile, the poor princess, 
who was greatly surprised on waking to find herself 
in the middle of the sea, began to weep bitterly, and 
fancied she had been cast into the waves by order of 
the king of the peacocks. After being tossed about 
for a couple of days, during which she would have 
died of hunger had she not chanced to pass near a bed 
of oysters, Fretillon’s incessant barking attracted the 
notice of a good old man, who lived in a solitary hut 
on the shore. Thinking some travellers had lost their 
way, he came out to help them, when he was much 
surprised on beholding the princess in her water bed, 
calling out to him to save her life. The old man ran 


PRINCESS ROSETTA. 


back to fetch a grapple, and towed the bed ashore 
with some difficulty, and the princess having wrapt 
herself in the counterpane, followed him to his cottage, 
where he lit a fire, and gave her some clothes that 
once belonged to his late wife. Seeing that she must 
be a lady of high degree, by the richness of the bed¬ 
clothes, which were of satin, embroidered with gold 
and silver, the old man questioned her, and having 
learnt her story, he offered to go and inform the king 



of her arrival, reminding her that she would not have 


PRINCESS ROSETTA. 


proper fare in liis poor house. But ltosetta would 
not hear of such a thing, and preferred borrowing a 
basket, which she fastened to Fretillon s neck, saying, 
“ Go and fetch me pot-luck from the best kitchen in 
the town.” Fretillon set off ) and, as there was no bet¬ 
ter than the king’s, he stole all that was in the pot, 
and came back to his mistress. She then sent him 
back to the pantry to frtcli bread, wine, and fruit 
Now, when the king of the peacocks wanted to dine, 
there was nothing left, either in the pot or the pantry, 
so he was in a great rage, and he ordered some joints 
to be roasted, that he might, at least, make a good 
supper. But when evening came, the princess sent 
Fretillon to fetch some joints from the best kitchen, 
and the little dog again went to the palace, and, whip 
ping the joints off the spit while the cook’s back w 
turned, he filled his basket and returned home. T 
king having missed his dinner, wished to sup earli 
than usual, when again nothing was to be had, an 
he went to bed in a perfect fury. The same thin* 
happened the next day, both at dinner and at supper, 
so that for three days the king never tasted a morsel; 
and this might have gone on much longer had not a 
courtier concealed himself in the kitchen, ana disco* 


PRINCESS ROSETTA. 


vered the four-footed thief, and followed him to the 
cottage. The king immediately ordered the inmates 
of the cottage and the dog to be taken into custody, 
and determined they should be put to death with the 
two strangers, whose respite was to expire on the mor¬ 
row. He then entered the hall of justice to judge 
the culprits. The old man knelt before him, and told 
him Bosetta’s whole story; and when the king cast 
his eyes upon her, and saw how beautiful she was, he 
jumped for joy, and untied the cords that bound her. 
Meantime the two princes were sent for, together with 
the nurse and her daughter; and when they had all 
met, Bosetta fell on her brothers’ necks, while the 
guilty nurse and her daughter, and the pilot, knelt 
down to implore forgiveness. The king was so de¬ 
lighted that he pardoned them, and rewarded the old 
man handsomely, and insisted on his remaining in his 
palace. The king of the peacocks next did all he 
could to make up for the ill-usage the king and the 
prince had suffered. The nurse returned the bushel 
of golden crowns and Bosetta’s fine clothes; and the 
wedding rejoicings lasted a whole fortnight. So every¬ 
body was satisfied, not forgetting Fretillon, who was 
fed with all sorts of dainties for the rest of his life. 


THE STORY 

07 

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fiitfli Inj 3Hatonti to Ctiatolam. 



























































littlt &tit JliMttg 33nrii. 


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In a retired and pleasant village there once lived a 
little girl, who was one of the prettiest children ever 
seen. Her mother loved her to excess, and as to her 
grandmother, she was doatingly fond of her, and looked 
upon her as the delight of her eyes, and the comfort 
of her declining years. The good old dame had a 
little hood of scarlet velvet made for her darling, which 
became her so daintily, that for miles round she had 
been nicknamed Little Red Riding Hood. 

One day, when her mother had baked a batch of 
cakes, she said to Little Red Riding Hood: “ I hear 
your poor grandam has been ailing, so, prithee, go 
and see if she be any better, and take her this cake 
and a little pot of butter.” Little Red Riding Hood, 
who was a willing child, and always ready to be use¬ 
ful, put the things into a basket, and immediately 
set off for the village where her grandmother lived, 
which lay on the other side of a thick wood. As she 
reached the outskirts of the forest, she met a wolf, 




LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD. 

wlio would have liked vastly to have devoured her 
at once, had there not been some woodcutters near at 
hand, whom he feared might kill him in turn. So 
he sidled up to the little girl, and said, in as winning a 
tone as he could assume: “Good morning, Little Bed 
Biding Hood.” “Good morning, Master Wolf,” an¬ 
swered she, who had no idea of being afraid of so civil 
spoken an animal. “And pray where may you be 
going so early? ” quoth the wolf. “ I am going to my 
grandmother’s,” replied Little Bed Biding Hood, who 



thought there could be no harm in telling him. “And 





















LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD. 

nrhatare you carrying in your basket, my pretty little 
mid?” continued the wolf, sniffing its contents. “Why, 
i cake and a pot of butter,” answered simple Little 
Red Riding Hood, “because grandmother has been 
ill.” And where does poor grandmamma live?” in¬ 
quired the wolf, in a tone of great interest. “ Down 
beyond the mill, on the other side of the wood,” said 
she. “ Well,” cried the wolf, “I don’t mind if I go 
and see her too. So I’ll take this road, and do you 
go through the wood, and we’ll see which of us shall 
be there first.” 

Now, the wily wolf knew well enough that he would 
be the winner in such a race. For, letting alone his 
four feet against poor Little Red Riding Hood s two, 
he could dash through the underwood, and swim across 
a pond, that would bring him by a very short cut to 
the old grandam’s cottage, while he shrewdly guessed 
that the little girl would stop to gather strawberries, 
or to make up a posy, as she loitered along the plea¬ 
santer but more roundabout path through the wood. 
And sure enough the wolf, who cared neither for 
strawberries nor for flowers, made such good speed 
that he had presently reached the grandmother’s cot- 


LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD* 


lage. Thump, thump, went the wolf against the 
door. “Who is there?” cried the grandam from 
within. “ Only your grandchild, Little Red Riding 
Hood,” cried the wolf, imitating the little girl’s shrill 
infantine voice as best he might. “ I have come to 
bring you a cake and a pot of butter that mother sends 
you.” The grandmother, being ill, was in bed, so she 
called out: “ Lift the latch, and the bolt will fall.” 
The wolf did so, and in he went, and, without saying 
a word more, he fell upon the poor old creature, ant 
ate her up in no ^ime, for he had not tasted food for 
the last three days. He next shut the door, and, put¬ 
ting on the grandam’s nightcap and nightgown, he 
got into bed, drew the curtain, and buried his head 
in the pillow, and kept laughing in his sleeve at the 
trick he meant to put upon poor Little Red Riding 
Hood, and wondering how long she would be before 
she came. 

Meanwhile Little Red Riding Hood rambled through 
the wood with child-like glee, stopping every now and 
then to listen to the birds that were singing so sweetly 
on the green boughs, and picking strawberries, which 
she knew her grandam loved to eat with cream. 


LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD. 


till she had nearly filled her basket; nor had she ne¬ 
glected to gather all the pretty flowers, red, blue, 
white, or yellow, that hid their sweet little heads 
amidst the moss; and of these her apron was at last 
so full, that she sat down under a tree to sort them 
and wind them into a wreath. 



While she was thus occupied, a wasp came buzzing 
along, and, delighted at finding so many flowers with¬ 
out the trouble of searching for them, he began to 
drink up their honey very voraciously. little Red 










LITTLE RED ItTDING HOOD. 


Riding Hood knew well the difference of a wasp ana 
a bee—how lazy the one, and how industrious the 
other—yet, as they are all God’s creatures, she wouldn’t 
kill it, and only said: (t Take as much honey as you 
like, poor wasp, only do not sting me.” The wasp 
buzzed louder, as if to thank her for her kindness, and, 
when he had sipped his fill, flew away. Presently, a lit¬ 
tle tom-tit, who had been hopping about on a bough op¬ 
posite, darted down on the basket, and pecked at one 
of the strawberries. “ Eat as much as you like, pretty 
tom-tit,” said Little Red Riding Hood: “ there will 
still be plenty left for grandam and for me.” The 
tom-tit replied, “ Tweat—tweat,” in his own eloquent 
language; and, after gobbling up at least three straw¬ 
berries, flew away, and was soon out of sight. Little 
Red Riding Hood now bethought her it was time to 
go on; so, putting her wreath into her basket, she 
tripped along demurely enough till she came to a 
brook, where she saw an aged crone, almost bent dou¬ 
ble, seeking for something along the bank. “ What 
are you looking for, goody 1 ?” said the little girl. “ For 
water-cresses, my pretty maid,” mumbled the poor 
old woman; “ and a sorry trade it is, that does not 



little red riding hood. 

68.ru jYie half enough bread to eat. Little Led Hiding 
Hood thought it very hard the poor old creature should 
work and be hungry too, so she drew from her pocket 
a large piece of bread, which her mother had given 
her to eat by the way, and said: “ Sit down, goody, 
and eat this, and I will gather your water-cresses for 
you.” The old woman willingly accepted the offer, 
and sat’ down on a knoll, while Little Led Lidmg 
Hood set to work in good earnest, and had presently 
filled her basket with water-cresses. TV hen her task 
was finished, the old crone rose up briskly, and, patting 
the little maid’s head, said, in quite a different voice: 

“ Thank you, my pretty Little Led Hiding Hood; 
and now, if you happen to meet the green huntsman 
as you go along, pray give him my respects, and tell 
him there is game in the wind.” Little Led Lidmg 
Hood promised to do so, and walked on; but presently 
B ke looked back to see how the old woman was get¬ 
ting along, but, look as sharp as she might, she could 
see no trace of her, nor of her water-cresses. ^ She 
seemed to have vanished clean out of sight. “ It is 
very odd,” tnought Little Led Hiding Hood, to her¬ 
self, “ for stirely I can walk faster than she. Then 


LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD. 

*he kept looking about her, and prying into all the 
Dushes, to see for the gieen huntsman, whom she had 
never heard of before, and wondered why the old 
woman had given her such a message. At last, just 
she was passing by a pool of stagnant water, so 
green that you would have taken it for grass, and 
have walked into it, as Little Red Riding Hood, who 
had never seen it before, though she had gone that 
same way often enough, had nearly done, she per¬ 
ceived a huntsman clad in green from top to toe, 
standing on the bank, apparently watching the flight 
of some birds that were wheeling above his head. 

Good morning, Master Huntsman,” said Little Red 
Riding Hood; “the old water-cress woman sends her 
service to you, and says there is game in the wind.” 
The huntsman nodded assent, and bent his ear to the 
ground to listen, and then drew out an arrow tipped 
with a green feather, and strung his bow, with¬ 
out taking any further notice of Little Red Riding 
Hood, who trudged onwards, wondering what it all 
meant. 

Presently the little girl reached her grandmother’s 
well-known cottage, and knocked at the door. “ Who 


LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD. 


is there?” cried the wolf, forgetting to disguise hig 
voice. Little Red Riding Hood was somewhat 



startled at first; then thinking her grandam had a 
bad cold that made her very hoarse, she answered, 
“It is your grandchild, Little Red Riding Hood, who 
has brought you a cake and a little pot of butter, 
which mother sends you.” The wolf then softened 
his voice a little, as he replied: “Lift the latch, and 
the bolt will fall.” Little Red Riding Hood did as 
she was told, and then entered the cottage. 




































LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD. 


wolf tlien hid his head under the bed-clothes, and 
said: “ Put the cake and the pot of butter on the shelf, 
my dear, and then come and help me to rise.” Little 
Bed Biding Hood set down her basket, and then 
went and drew back the curtain, when she was much 




vnrprised to see how oddly her grandmother looked 
ia her night-clothes. “Dear me! grandmamma,” 
said the little girl, “what long arms you have got!” 
“ The better to hug you, my ohild,” answered the 
wolf. 


















LITTLE REE RIDING HOOD. 

“But, grandmamma, what long ears you have 
got! ” persisted Little Red Riding Hood. 

“ The better to listen to you, my child,” replied the 
wolf. 

* But, grandmamma, what large eyes you have 
got!” continued the little girl. 

“ The better to see you, my child,” said the wolf. 

“ But, grandmamma, what terrible large teeth you 
have got!” cried Little Red Riding Hood, who now 
began to be frightened. 

“ The better to eat you up,” exclaimed the wolf, 
who was just about to make a spring at the poor lit¬ 
tle girl, when a wasp, who had followed her into the 
cottage, stung the wolf in his nostril, and made him 
sneeze aloud, which gave the signal to a tom-tit 
perched on a branch near the open casement, who 
called out “ Tweat—tweat,” which warned the green 
huntsman, who accordingly let fly his arrow, that 
struck the wolf right through the ear and killed him 
on the spot. 

Little Red Riding Hood was so frightened, even 
after the wolf had fallen back dead, that she bounced 
out of the cottage, and, shutting the door, darted 


LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD. 

into the forest like a frightened hare, and ran 
till she was out of breath, when she dropped down 
quite exhausted under a tree. Here she discovered 
that she had mistaken the road, when, to her great 
relief, she espied her old friend the water-cress wo¬ 
man, at some distance; and, feeling sure she could soon 
overtake the aged dame, she again set off, calling out 
to her every now and then to stop. The old crone, 
however, seemed too deaf to hear; and it was not till 
they had reached the skirts of the forest that she 
turned round, when, to Little Bed Biding Hood’s 
surprise, she perceived a young and beautiful being 
in place of the decrepit creature she thought she was 
following. “ Little Bed Biding Hood,” said the fairy, 
for such she was, “ your goodness of heart has saved 
you from a great danger. Had you not helped the 
poor old water-cress woman, she would not have sent 
word to the green huntsman, who is generally invi¬ 
sible to mortal eyes, to save you. Had you killed the 
wasp, or driven away the tom-tit, the former could not 
nave stung the wolf’s nostril and made him sneeze, nor 
the latter have given the huntsman the signal to fly 
his shaft. In future, no wild beast shall ever harm 


LITTLE RED RID JUG HOOD. 

you, and the fairy folks will always be your friends." 
So saying, tbe fairy vanished, and Little Bed Biding 
Hood hastened home to tell her mother all that had 
befallen her; nor did she forget that night to thank 
Heaven fervently for having delivered her from th< 
jaws of tlie wolf. 




























THE STORY 


OF THE 


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—♦— 

Th^ire once lived a king and queen, wlio had been 
married many years without having any children, 
which was a subject of great sorrow to them. So 
when at length it pleased Heaven to send them a 
daughter, there was no end to the rejoicings that 
were made all over the kingdom, nor was there ever 
so grand a christening seen before. All the fairies 
in the land were invited to stand godmothers to the 
little princess, in the hope that each would endow her 
with some gift, as was customary in those days; by 
which means she would be adorned with every per¬ 
fection and accomplishment that could be devised. 

When the christening was over, the company re¬ 
turned to the king’s palace, where a banquet was pre¬ 
pared for the fairies, seven in number, who had graced 
the ceremony with their presence. Before each fairy 
was laid a splendid cover, with a case of massive gold 
containing a knife, a fork, and a spoon of the purest 
gold, ornamented with diamonds and rubies. Just 



TIIE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD. 

as they were going to sit down, in came an aged fairy 
who had not been invited, because, having remained 
shut up in a tower for more than fifty years, she was 
supposed to be either dead or under the influence of 
some spell. The king immediately ordered a cover 
to be laid for her, but he could not give her a golden 
case like the others, as only seven had been made, 
for the seven fairies. The old crone consequently 
thought herself treated with disrespect, and muttered 
sundry threats betwixt her teeth, which happened to 
be overheard by one of the young fairies, who, fear¬ 
ing she might bestow some fatal gift on the baby 
princess, had no sooner risen from table than she 
went and concealed herself behind the tapestry-hang¬ 
ings, in order that she might speak the last, and be 
able to neutralize, if possible, any mischief the ill- 
natured hag might intend doing. 

The fairies now began to bestow their gifts. The 
youngest endowed her with surpassing beauty; another 
gave her wit; a third imparted grace; a fourth pro¬ 
mised that she should dance to perfection; a fifth, that 
she should sing like a nightingale; and the sixth, that 
*ke should play on all sorts of instruments in the 


THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD. 

most exquisite manner. It was now the old fairy’s 
turn to speak; when, coming forward, with her head 
shaking from spite still more than from age, she de¬ 
clared the princess would prick her hand with a spin¬ 
dle, and die of the wound. 

This terrible sentence fell like a damp upon all the 
company, and there was no one present but what shed 
tears. But just then the young fairy came out from 



behind the tapestry-hangings, and said aloud: “Be com¬ 
forted, 0 king and queen: your daughter shall not die 
























THE SLEEPING BEAUTY Ilf THE WOOD. 

of tlie wound. For although I have not the power 
to undo completely the mischief worked by an older 
fairy, and though I cannot prevent the princess from 
pricking her hand with a spindle, yet, instead of 
dying, she shall only fall into a sleep, that will last a 
hundred years, at the end of which a king’s son will 
come and wake her.” 

Notwithstanding the fairy’s words, the king, in 
hopes of averting such a misfortune altogether, pub¬ 
lished an edict forbidding any person to make use of 
spindles, or even to keep them in thoir house, under 
pain of death. 

Some fifteen or sixteen years afterwards, it hap¬ 
pened that the king and queen went to visit one of 
their summer palaces; when the young princess, run¬ 
ning one morning all over the rooms, in the frolic¬ 
some spirits of youth, at length climbed uj> ono of the 
turrets, and reached a little garret, where she lound 
an old woman busy spinning with a distaff. Th? 
poor soul had never even heard of the king’s cvtict, 
and did not dream that she was committing high 
treason by using a spindle. 


THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD. 

“What are you doing, goody?” cried the princess. 
“ I am spinning, my pretty dear,” replied the old wo¬ 
man, little thinking she was speaking to a princess. 
“ Oh! how amusing it must be,” cried the princess, “ I 
should so like to try! Pray shew me how to set about 



it.” But no sooner had she taken hold of the spindle, 
than, being somewhat hasty and careless, and likewise 
because the fairies had ordered it to come to pass, she 
pricked her hand, and fell down in a dead faint. 

The good old woman becoming alarmed, ealle\ 
























THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD. 

aloud for help, and a number of attendants flocked 
round the princess, bathed her temples with water, 
unlaced her stays, and rubbed the palms of her hands, 
but all to no purpose. The king, who had come up 
stairs on hearing the noise they made, now recollected 
what the fairies had foretold, and seeing there was no 
help for it, ordered the princess to be laid on a bed, 
embroidered in gold and silver, in the most magnifi¬ 
cent room in the palace. She looked as lovely as an 



angel, while thus lying in state, though not dead, for 
the roses of her complexion and the coral of her lips 









THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD. 

were unimpaired; and though her eyes remained 
closed, her gentle breathing shewed she was only slum¬ 
bering. The king ordered her to be left quite quiet, 
until the time should come when she was to awake. 
The good fairy who had saved her life, by condemning 
her to sleep for a hundred years, was in the kingdom 
of Mataquin, some twelve thousand miles off, when 
the accident occurred; hut, having quickly heard the 
news through a little dwarf, who possessed a pair of 
seven-league hoots, she lost no time in coming to see 
her royal friends, and presently arrived at the palace 
in a fiery chariot drawn by dragons. The king went 
to hand her out of the carriage. She approved of all 
he had done; hut, being extremely prudent, she fore¬ 
saw that when the princess would come to wake she 
would be puzzled what to do on finding herself all 
alone in a large palace, and therefore adopted the fol¬ 
lowing expedient. She touched with her wand all 
the ladies in waiting, maids of honour, ladies’ maids, 
gentlemen, officers, stewards, cooks, scullions, running 
footmen, guards, porters, pages, valets, in short, every 
human being in the palace, except their two majes" 


tfHK SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD. 

ties; she next went into the stables, and touched ah 
the horses, with their grooms, the large dogs in the 
court-yard, and, lastly, the princess’s little lapdog, that 
lay beside her on the bed. No sooner had she done so, 
than one and all fell into a sound sleep that was to 
last tiL their mistress should wake, in order to be 
ready to attend her the moment she would require 
their services. Even the spits before the fire, that 
were roasting some savoury partridges and phea¬ 
sants, seemed in a manner to fall asleep, as well as 

the fire itself. And all this was but the work of a 

* 

moment, fairies being never very long doing their 
spiriting. 

The king and queen, after having kissed their be¬ 
loved child, without waking her, left the palace, and 
published a decree forbidding any one to approach 
the spot. But this proved quite a needless precau¬ 
tion, for in a quarter of an hour’s time there sprung 
up all around the park such a quantity of trees, both 
great and small, and so thick a tangle of briars and 
brambles, that neither man nor beast could have 
found means to pass through them; in short, nothing 


THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD. 

but tlie topmost turrets of the castle could he seen, 
and these were only discernible at a distance. So 
that it seemed the fairy was determined the princess’s 
slumber should not be disturbed by idle curiosity. 

At the end of one hundred years, the son of the 
king who then reigned over the land, and who did 
not belong to the same family as the sleeping princess, 
happened to go a hunting one day in that neighbour¬ 
hood, and, catching a glimpse of the turrets peeping 
above a thick wood, inquired what building it was 
that he saw. Every one answered according to what 
they had heard. Some said it was an old castle, that 
was haunted; others, that it was a place of meeting 
for all the witches in the land; while the most pre¬ 
vailing opinion was, that it belonged to an ogre, who 
was in the habit of stealing little children, and car¬ 
rying them home to eat them unmolested, as nobody 
could follow him, since he alone had the power of 
penetrating through the thicket. The prince did not 

know what to make of all these different accounts, 

> 

when an old peasant said to him: “ Please your royal 
highness, it is now above fifty years since I heard my 
father tell that the most beautiful princess ever seen 


THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOP. 

was concealed in this palace, where she was con¬ 
demned to sleep for a hundred years, at the end of 
which she was to be awakened by a king’s son, whose 
bride she was destined to become.” 

On hearing this, the young prince’s fancy was so 
inflamed with the hope of being himself the hero des¬ 
tined to end the enchantment, that he immediately 
determined to ascertain how far the legend might 
prove true, No sooner did he reach the wood, than 
the large trees, as well as the briars and brambles, 
opened a passage for him of their own accord. He 
now advanced towards the castle, which he could per¬ 
ceive at the end of a long avenue, but, to his surprise, 
he found that none of his attendants had been able to 
follow him, the trees having closed upon them the 
moment he had passed through. Nevertheless, he 
proceeded on his way without the least concern, for a 
young prince who begins to feel himself in love must 
needs be brave. So he entered the outer court-yard, 
where he witnessed a sight that might have appalled 
one less resolute than himself. The image of death 
was everywhere present. The bodies of men and 


THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD. 



animals lay strewed about, apparently lifeless, and 
the silence was truly awful. Still, be soon perceived, 
by the rubicund noses and jolly faces of the porters, 
that they were only asleep; while their goblets, still 
retaining a few drops of wine, proved beyond a doubt 
that sleep had surprised them in the midst of a drunken 
bout. He then passed through a large court, paved 
with marble, and entered the guard-room, where he 
found a double row of soldiers shouldering their cara¬ 
bines, and snoring loudly. He next crossed through 
several rooms, full of ladies and gentlemen in waiting, 



















THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD. 

gome standing and some sitting, but all fast asleep; 
nd at length entered a gilt chamber, where, upon a 
magnificent bed, the curtains of which were drawn 
back, he saw reclining a princess, apparently about 
sixteen, and of the most resplendent beauty that had 
ever met his sight. He felt impressed with such ad¬ 
miration for her loveliness that he could not refrain 
from bending his knee before her. 

Just at that moment the period of the enchant¬ 
ment came to a close, the princess awoke, and, look- 
ins: at him with more fondness than a first interview 

o 

would seem to warrant, she exclaimed: “ Is it you, 
dear prince? How long I’ve been waiting for you!” 
The prince was so charmed by these words, and the 
manner in which they were uttered, that, feeling 
quite at a loss how to express his gratitude and de¬ 
light, he could only assure the fair sleeper that he 
loved her far better than he did himself. But though 
he did not make any set speeches, his conversation 
was only the more acceptable to the princess, who, on 
her part, was much less timid and awkward than her 
lover, which is not to be wondered at, as we may 
fairly conclude that she had had ample time—namely, 


THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD. 

a century—to consider wliat slie should say to him | 
for it is not to be supposed but what the good fairy 
gave her agreeable dreams during her long slumber. 
However that may be, they now talked for about four 
hours, without having said half of what they had to 
say to each other. 

All the inmates of the palace having awoke at the 
same time as the princess, each began to discharge 
the duties of his or her office; and, as they were not 
all in love, like their mistress, they felt very hungry. 
The lady in waiting, out of all patience, at length 
told the princess that supper was ready. The prince 
then gave her his hand to help her to rise, for she 
was ready dressed in the most magnificent clothes, 
though he took care not to observe that they were 
cut on the pattern of those of his grandmother, and 
that she wore a ruff, which was not now in fashion, 
but she looked quite as beautiful as if her dress had 
been more modern. 

They then went into the hall of looking-glasses, 
where they supped to the sound of music, which was 
well executed by an orchestra of violins and hautboys 


THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD. 

Although the tunes they played were at least a century 
*ut of date. After supper, the chaplain united tha 



happy pair, and the next day they left the old castle 
and returned to court, where the king was delighted 
to welcome back the prince and his lovely bride, who 
was thenceforward nicknamed, both by her contem¬ 
poraries and by the chroniclers who handed down the 
legend, the Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. 






















1 


THE STORY 

OF THE 


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—•— 

Tiiere was once a princess who had such a beautiful 
head of hair, streaming down in curls to her feet, and 
brilliant as a sunbeam, that she was universally called 
the Fair One with Golden Locks. A neisfhbourina* 

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king, having heard a great deal of her beauty, fell in 
love with her upon hearsay, and sent an ambassador 
with a magnificent suite to ask her in marriage, bid¬ 
ding him be sure and not fail to bring the princess 
home with him. The ambassador did his best to ful¬ 
fil the king’s commands, and made as fair a speech as 
he could to persuade the lady; but, either she was not 
in a good temper that day, or his eloquence fiiiled to 
move her, for she answered, that she thanked the 
king, but had no mind to marry. So the ambassador 
returned home with all the presents he had brought, 
as the princess would not accept anything of a suitor 
whom she refused, much to the grief of the king, who 
had made the most splendid preparations to receive 
her, never doubting but what she would come. 

Flow there happened to be at court a very hand¬ 
some young man, named Avenant, who observed, that 
had he been sent to the Fair One with Golden Locks, 



THE FAIK ONE WITH GOLDEN LOCKS. 

he would certainly have persuaded her to come; where¬ 
upon some ill-natured persons, who were jealous ol 
the favour he enjoyed, repeated his words to the king, 
as though he had meant to boast that, being hand¬ 
somer than his majesty, the princess would certainly 
have followed him. This threw the king into such a 
rage, that he ordered poor Avenant to be thrown into 
a dungeon, where he had nothing but straw to lie up¬ 



on, and where he would have died of exhaustion had 












THE FAIR ONE WITH GOLDEN LOCKS. 

it not been for a little spring that welled forth at the 
foot of the tower in which he was confined. One day, 
when he felt as if he were near his end, he could not 
help exclaiming: “ What have I done 1 ? and what can 
have hardened the king’s heart against the most faith¬ 
ful of all his subjects? ” It chanced that the king passed 
by just as he uttered these words, and, being melted 
by his former favourite’s grief, he ordered the prison 
door to be opened, and bid him come forth. Avenant 
fell at his feet, entreating to know the cause of his 
disgrace. “ Did you not make game both of myself 
and my ambassador?” said the king; “and did you 
not boast, that had I sent you to the Fair One with 
Golden Locks, you would have prevailed on her to re¬ 
turn with you?” “True, Sire,” replied Avenant; “for 
I should have set forth all your great qualities so ir¬ 
resistibly, that I am certain she could not have said 
nay. Methinks there is no treason in that.” The 
king was so convinced of his innocence, that he 
straightway released Avenant from prison and brought 
him back to the palace. After having given him 
a good supper, the king took him into his cabinet, 
and confessed to him that he was still so in love with 
the Fair One with Golden Locks, that he had a great 


THE FAT It ONE WITH GOLDEN LOCKS. 

mind to send him to obtain her hand, and meant to 
prepare a splendid equipage befitting the ambassador 
of a great nation. But Avenant said: u That is not 
necessary. Only give me a good horse and the neces¬ 
sary credentials, and I will set off to-morrow. 

On the following morning Avenant left the court, 
and set out alone on his journey, thinking as he went 
of all the fine things he should say to the princess, 
and stopping ever and anon, when any pretty conceit 
came into his head, to jot it down on his tablets. One 
day as he halted for this purpose in a lovely meadow 
by the side of a rivulet, he perceived a large golden 
carp that lay gasping upon the grass, having jumped 
so high to snap at the flies, that she had overreached 
herself, and was unable to get back into the water. 
Avenant took pity on her, and, gently lifting her up, 
restored her to her native element. The carp took a 
plunge to refresh herself, then reappearing on the sur¬ 
face °she said: “ Thanks, Avenant, for having saved 
my life. I will do you a good turn if ever I can.” 
So saying she dived back into the watei, leaving 
Avenant greatly surprised at her civility. 

Another time, he saw a crow closely pursued by a 
large eagle, when, thinking it would be a shame not 


THE FAIR ONE WITH GOLDEN LOCKS. 

to defend the weak against, the strong, he let fly an 
arrow that brought the cruel bird of prey to the 
ground, while the crow perched upon a tree in great 
delight, crying: “It was very generous of you, Avenant, 
to help a poor crow like me. But I will prove grate¬ 
ful, and do you a good turn whenever I can.” 



Avenant was pleased with the crow’s good feelings 
and continued his journey; when, some days after, as 





THE FAIR ONE WITH GOLDEN LOCKS. 

he crossed a thick wood, he heard an owl hooting, as 
if in great distress. After looking about him on all 
sides, Avenant found the poor owl had got entangled 
in a net. He soon cut the meshes, and set him 
free. The owl soared aloft, then, wheeling back, cried, 
“ Avenant, I was caught, and should have been killed 
without your help. But I am grateful, and will do 
you a good turn when I can.” 

Such were the principal adventures that befel Aven¬ 
ant on his journey. When, at last, he reached the 
capital, where resided the Fair One with Golden Locks, 
it appeared so magnificent that he thought he should 
be lucky indeed if he could persuade her to leave such 
wonders, to come and marry the king, his master. He, 
however, determined to do his best; so, having put 
on a brocaded dress, with a richly-embroidered scarf, 
and hung round his neck a small basket, containing 
a beautiful little dog he had bought on the road, he 
asked for admittance at the palace gate with such 
graceful dignity that the guards all bowed respect¬ 
fully, and the attendants ran to announce the arrival 
of another ambassador, named Avenant, from the 
king, her neighbour. 

The princess bid her women fetch the blue bro- 


THE FAIR ONE WITH GOLDEN LOCKS. 

caded satin gown, and dress her hair with fresh 
wreaths of flowers; and, when her toilet was com¬ 
pleted, she entered her audience chamber, where 
Avenant was waiting for her. Though dazzled at the 
sight of her rare beauty, he nevertheless delivered an 
eloquent harangue, which he wound up by entreating 
the princess not to give him the pain of returning 
without her. “Gentle Avenant,” replied she, “your 
speech is fair; but you must know, that, a month ago, 
I let fall into the river a ring that I value a-bove my 
kingdom, and I made a voav at the time, that I would 
a marriage proposal from anybody, 
unless his ambassador recovered my lost treasure. 
So you see, were you to talk till doomsday, you could 
mot shake my determination.” 

Avenant, though surprised and vexed at such an 
answer, made a low bow, and requested the princess’s 
acceptance of the dog, the basket, and the scarf he 
wore; but she refused his proffered gifts, and bid him 
consider of what she had said. 

Avenant went to bed supperless that night; nor 
could he close his eyes for a long while, but kept 
lamenting that the princess required impossible things 
to put him off the suit he had undertaken. But his 


THE FAIR ONE WITH GOLDEN LOCKS. 

little dog Cabriole bid him be of good cheer, as fortune 
would no doubt favour him; and though Avenant did 
not much rely on his good luck, he at length fell 
asleep from sheer exhaustion. 

The- next morning Cabriole woke up his master, 
who dressed himself and went to take a walk. His 
feet insensibly carried him to the river side, when he 



heard a voice calling out! <£ Avenant! Avenant! He 
looked about him, but seeing no one, was proceeding 



















THE FAIR ONE WITH GOLDEN LOCKS. 

> } his way, when Cabriole, who was looking at the 
<%ater, cried: “Why, master, as I’m alive, it is a 
golden carp that is hailing you.” Upon which the 
carp approached, saying: “You saved my life in the 
meadow, and I promised to be grateful. So here is 
the ring you are seeking for, gentle Avenant.” 

He then hastened to the palace, and, requesting an 
audience of the princess, he presented her the ring, 
and asked whether she had any objection now to marry 
his master? On seeing her ring she was greatly 
amazed; but, being intent on putting him off once 
more, she replied: “ Since you are so ready to fulfil 
my behests, most gracious Avenant, I pray you do 
me another service, without which I cannot marry. 
There lives not far from hence a giant named Gali- 
fron, who has threatened to ravage my kingdom unless 
I granted him my hand. But I could not resolve to 
marry a monster who is as tall as a tower, who carries 
cannons in his pocket to serve for pistols, and "whose 
voice is so loud that people grow deaf if they ap¬ 
proach too near him. He is daily killing and eating 
my subjects, and if you want to win my good graces 
on your master’s behalf, you must bring me the giant’s 
head.” 


THE FAIR ONE WITH GOLDEN LOCKS. 

Avenant was taken somewhat aback at this pro¬ 
posal; yet, after a few moments’ reflection, he said, 
“ Well, madam, I am ready to fight Galifron; and, 
though T may not conquer, I can, at least, die the 
death of a hero.” The princess, who had never ex¬ 
pected Avenant would consent, now sought to dis¬ 
suade him from so rash an attempt; but all she could 
say proved vain; and, having equipped himself for the 
fight, he mounted his horse and departed. 

As he approached Galifron’s castle, he found the road 
strewed with the bones and carcases of those whom he 
had devoured or torn to pieces; and presently the giant 
emerged from a wood, when, seeing Avenant with his 
sword drawn, he ran at him with his iron club, and would 
have killed him on the spot, had not a crow come and 
pecked at his eyes, and made the blood stream down 
his face; so that, while he aimed his blows at random, 
Avenant plunged his sword up to the hilt into his 
heart. Avenant then cut off his head, and the crow 
perched on a tree, saying: “ I have not forgotten how 
you saved my life by killing the eagle. I promised 
to do you a good turn, and I have kept my word.” 
“In truth I am greatly beholden to you, master crow,” 


THE FAIR ONE WITH GOLDEN LOCKS. 

* * , f « f x 

quoth Avenant, as he mounted his horse, and rode off 
with Galifron’s head. 



When he reached the city, the inhabitants gathered 
round him, and accompanied him with loud cheers 
to the palace. The princess, who had trembled for 
his safety, was delighted to see him return. “Now 
madam,” said Avenant, “I think you have no 
excuse left for not marrying my liege lord.” “Yes, 
indeed I have,” answered she; “ and I shall still 
refuse him unless you procure me some water from 
the fountain of beauty. This water lies in a grotto, 
guarded by two dragons. Inside the grotto is a large 



THE FAIR ONE WITH GOLDEN LOCKS. 

hole full of toads and serpents, by which you de¬ 
scend to a small cellar containing the spring. Who¬ 
ever washes her face with this water retains her 
beauty, if already beautiful, or becomes beautiful, 
though ever so ugly. It makes the young remain 
young, and the old become young again. “ So you 
see, Avenant, I cannot leave my kingdom without 
carrying some of this water away with me.” “ Me- 
thinks, madam,” observed Avenant, “ you are far too 
beautiful to need any such water; but, as you seek the 
death of your humble servant, I must go and die.” 

Accordingly, Avenant set out with his faithful little 
dog, and at last reached a high mountain, from the 
top of which he perceived a rock as black as ink, 
whence issued clouds of smoke. Presently out came 
a green and yellow dragon, whose eyes and nostrils 
were pouring forth fire, and whose tail had at least a 
hundred coils. Avenant drew his sword, and taking 
out a phial given him by the Fair One with Golden 
Locks, said to Cabriole, “I shall never be able to reach 
the water; so, when I am killed, fill this phial with 
my blood, and take it to the princess, that she may 
see what she has cost me, and then go and inform 
the king, my master, of the fate that has befallen me. 


TIIE FAIR ONE WITH GOLDEN LOCKS. 

While he was speaking, a voice called out: “ Avenant 1 
Avenant!” and he perceived an owl in the hollow of 
a tree, who said: “You freed me from the bird-catcher’s 
net, and I promised to do you a good turn. So give 
me your phial, and I will go and fetch the water of 
beauty/’ ArA away flew the owl, who, knowing all 
the turnings aixd windings of the grotto, soon returned, 
bearing back his prize. After thanking the owl most 
heartily, Avenant lost no time in going back to the 
palace, where he presented the bottle to the princess, 
who now agreed to set out with him for his master’s 
kingdom. 

On reaching the capital, the king came forth to 
meet the Fair One with Golden Locks, and made her 
the most sumptuous presents. They were then married, 
amid great festivities and rejoicings; but the queen, 
who loved Avenant in her heart, could not forbear 
incessantly reminding the king, that had it not been 
for Avenant she would never have come, and that 
it was he alone who had procured her the water of 
beauty that was to preserve her ever youthful and 
beautiful. So it happened that some meddling bodies 
went and told the king that she preferred Avenant to 
himself, when he became so jealous that he ordered 


THE FAIR ONE WITH GOLDEN LOCKS. 

hi? faithful subject to be thrown into prison, and fed 
upon nothing but bread and water. When the Fair 
One with Golden Locks heard of his disgrace, she im¬ 
plored the king to release him, but the more she en¬ 
treated, the more obstinately his majesty refused. The 
king now imagined that his wife perhaps did not 
think him handsome enough, so he had a mind to try 
the effects of washing his face with the water of beauty 



Accordingly, we night he took the phial from off the 


























THE FAIR ONE WITH GOLDEN LOCKS. 


mantel-piece in the queen’s bed-chamber, and rubbed 
his face well before he went to bed. But, unfortu¬ 
nately, a short time previous the phial had been bro¬ 
ken by one of the maids, as she was dusting, and, to 
avoid a scolding, she had replaced it by a phial which 
she found in the king’s cabinet, containing a wash simi¬ 
lar in appearance, but deadly in its effects. The king 
went to sleep, and died. Cabriole ran to his master 
to tell him the news, when Avenant bid him go and 
remind the queen of the poor prisoner. So Cabriole 
slipped in amongst the crowd of courtiers who had 
assembled on the king’s death, and whispered to her 
majesty: “ Do not forget poor Avenant.” The queen 
then called to mind all he had suffered on her account, 
and hastening to the tower, she took off his chains 
with her own white hands, and throwing the royal 
mantle over his shoulders, and placing a gold crown 
on his head, she said: “ I choose you for my husband, 
Avenant, and you shall be king.” Everybody was 
delighted at her choice, the wedding was the grandest 
ever seen, and the Fair One with Golden Locks, and 
her faithful Avenant, lived happily to a good old age. 


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